THE UDDHAVA GITA

From
Shrimad-Bhaagavat MahaPuran, Book 11.06-29(Compiled and edited by Jay Mazo, International Gita Society)
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NOTE: Instructions to Uddhava by Lord Krishna known as "The Uddhava-Gita" starts from verse 40, Chapter 6, Book 11 of Shrimad-Bhaagavat MahaPuran and ends after Chapter 29. It has more than 1,000 verses. This is also called the
farewell message of Lord Krishna, a parting discourse, and is meant for those students who have first thoroughly studied The Bhagavad-Gita.

Chapter Six: The Yadu Dynasty Retires to Prabhasa

1. Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: Lord Brahma then set
off for Dvaraka, accompanied by his own sons as well as by the demigods and the
great Prajapatis. Lord Siva, the bestower of auspiciousness to all living
beings, also went, surrounded by many ghostly creatures.

2-4. The powerful Lord Indra, along with the Maruts,
Adityas, Vasus, Asvinis, Rbhus, Angiras, Rudras, Visvedevas, Sadhyas, Gandharvas,
Apsaras, Nagas, Siddhas, Caranas, Guhyakas, the great sages and forefathers and
the Vidyadharas and Kinnaras, arrived at the city of Dvaraka, hoping to see
Lord Krsna. By His transcendental form, Krsna, the Supreme Lord, enchanted all
human beings and spread His own fame throughout the worlds. The Lord’s glories
destroy all contamination within the universe.

5. In that resplendent city of Dvaraka, rich with
all superior opulences, the demigods beheld with unsatiated eyes the wonderful
form of Sri Krsna.

6. The demigods covered the Supreme Lord of the
universe with flower garlands brought from the gardens of heaven. Then they
praised Him, the best of the Yadu dynasty, with statements containing charming
words and ideas.

7. The demigods began to speak: Our dear Lord,
advanced mystie yogis, striving for liberation from the severe bondage of
material work, meditate with great devotion upon Your lotus feet within their
hearts. Dedicating our intelligence, senses, vital air, mind and power of
speech to Your Lordship, we demigods bow down at Your lotus feet.

8. O unconquerable Lord, You engage Your illusory
energy, composed of three modes, to unleash, maintain and devastate the
inconceivable manifest cosmos, all within Your own self. As the supreme superintendent
of maya, You appear to be situated in the interaction of the modes of nature;
however, You are never affected by material activities. In fact, You are
directly engaged in Your own eternal, spiritual bliss, and thus You cannot be
accused of any material infection.

9. O greatest of all, those whose consciousness is
polluted by illusion cannot purify themselves merely by ordinary worship, study
of the Vedas, charity, austerity and ritual activities. Our Lord, those pure
souls who have developed a powerful transcendental faith in Your glories
achieve a purified state of existence that can never be attained by those
lacking such faith.

10. Great sages, desiring the highest benefit in
life, always cherish Your lotus feet within their hearts, which are melted by
love for You. Similarly, Your self-controlled devotees, desiring to cross
beyond the material kingdom of heaven to achieve opulence equal to Yours,
worship Your lotus feet in the morning, at noon and in the evening. Thus, they
meditate upon Your Lordship in Your quadruple expansion. Your lotus feet are
just like a blazing fire that burns to ashes all the inauspicious desires for
material sense gratification.

11. Those about to offer oblations into the fire
of sacrifice in accordance with the Rg, Yajur and Sama Vedas meditate on Your
lotus feet. Similarly, the practitioners of transcendental yoga meditate upon
Your lotus feet, hoping for knowledge about Your divine mystic potency, and the
most elevated pure devotees perfectly worship Your lotus feet, desiring to
cross beyond Your illusory potency.

12. O almighty Lord, You are so kind to Your
servants that You have accepted the withered flower garland that we have placed
on Your chest. Since the goddess of fortune makes her abode on Your
transcendental chest, she will undoubtedly become agitated, like a jealous
co-wife, upon seeing our offering also dwelling there. Yet You are so merciful
that You neglect Your eternal consort Laksmi and accept our offering as most
excellent worship. O merciful Lord, may Your lotus feet always act as a blazing
fire to consume the inauspicious desires within our hearts.

13. O omnipotent Lord, in Your incarnation as
Trivikrama, You raised Your leg like a flagpole to break the shell of the
universe, allowing the holy Ganges to flow down, like a banner of victory, in
three branches throughout the three planetary systems. By three mighty steps of
Your lotus feet, Your Lordship captured Bali Maharaja, along with his universal
kingdom. Your lotus feet inspire fear in the demons by driving them down to
hell and fearlessness among Your devotees by elevating them to the perfection
of heavenly life. We are sincerely trying to worship You, our Lord; therefore
may Your lotus feet kindly free us from all of our sinful reactions.

14. You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
the transcendental entity who is superior to both material nature and the
enjoyer of nature. May Your lotus feet bestow transcendental pleasure upon us.
All of the great demigods, beginning with Brahma, are embodied living entities.
Struggling painfully with one another under the strict control of Your time
factor, they are just like bulls dragged by ropes tied through their pierced
noses.

15. You are the cause of the creation, maintenance
and destruction of this universe. As time, You regulate the subtle and manifest
states of material nature and control every living being. As the threefold
wheel of time You diminish all things by Your imperceptible actions, and thus
You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

16. My dear Lord, the original purusa-avatara,
Maha-Visnu, acquires His creative potency from You. Thus with infallible energy
He impregnates material nature, producing the mahat-tattva. Then the
mahat-tattva, the amalgamated material energy, endowed with the potency of the
Lord, produces from itself the primeval golden egg of the universe, which is
covered by various layers of material elements.

17. O Lord, You are the supreme creator of this universe
and the ultimate controller of all moving and nonmoving living entities. You
are Hrsikesa, the supreme controller of all sensory activity, and thus You
never become contaminated or entangled in the course of Your supervision of the
infinite sensory activities within the material creation. On the other hand,
other living entities, even yogis and philosophers, are disturbed and
frightened simply by remembering the material objects that they have supposedly
renounced in their pursuit of enlightenment.

18. My Lord, You are living with sixteen thousand
exquisitely beautiful, aristocratic wives. By their irresistible coy and
smiling glances and by their lovely arching eyebrows, they send You messages of
eager conjugal love. But they are completely unable to disturb the mind and
senses of Your Lordship.

19. The nectar-bearing rivers of discussions about
You, and also the holy rivers generated from the bathing of Your lotus feet,
are able to destroy all contamination within the three worlds. Those who are
striving for purification associate with the holy narrations of Your glories by
hearing them with their ears, and they associate with the holy rivers flowing
from Your lotus feet by physically bathing in them.

20. Sri Sukadeva Gosvami continued: After Brahma,
along with Lord Siva and the other demigods, thus offered prayers to the
Supreme Lord, Govinda, Lord Brahma situated himself in the sky and addressed
the Lord as follows.

21. Lord Brahma said: My dear Lord, previously we
requested You to remove the burden of the earth. O unlimited Personality of
Godhead, that request has certainly been fulfilled.

22. My Lord, You have reestablished the principles
of religion among pious men who are always firmly bound to the truth. You have
also distributed Your glories all over the world, and thus the whole world can
be purified by hearing about You.

23. Descending into the dynasty of King Yadu, You
have manifested Your unique transcendental form, and for the benefit of the
entire universe You have executed magnanimous transcendental activities.

24. My dear Lord, those pious and saintly persons
who in the age of Kali hear about Your transcendental activities and also
glorify them will easily cross over the darkness of the age.

25. O Supreme Personality of Godhead, O my Lord,
You have descended into the Yadu dynasty, and thus You have spent one hundred
twenty-five autumns with Your devotees.

26-27. My dear Lord, there is nothing remaining at
this time for Your Lordship to do on behalf of the demigods. You have already
withdrawn Your dynasty by the curse of the brahmanas. O Lord, You are the basis
of everything, and if You so desire, kindly return now to Your own abode in the
spiritual world. At the same time, we humbly beg that You always protect us. We
are Your humble servants, and on Your behalf we are managing the universal
situation. We, along with our planets and followers, require Your constant
protection.

28. The Supreme Lord said: O lord of the demigods,
Brahma, I understand your prayers and request. Having removed the burden of the
earth, I have executed everything that was required on your behalf.

29. That very Yadava dynasty in which I appeared
became greatly magnified in opulence, especially in their physical strength and
courage, to the extent that they threatened to devour the whole world.
Therefore I have stopped them, just as the shore holds back the great ocean.

30. If I were to leave this world without
withdrawing the overly proud members of the Yadu dynasty, the whole world would
be destroyed by the deluge of their unlimited expansion.

31. Now due to the brahmana’s curse, the annihilation of
My family has already begun. O sinless Brahma, when this annihilation is
finished and I am enroute to Vaikuntha, I will pay a small visit to your abode.

32. Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: Thus addressed by
the Lord of the universe, the self-born Brahma fell down in obeisances at the
lotus feet of the Lord. Surrounded by all the demigods, the great Brahma then
returned to his personal abode.

33. Thereafter, the Personality of Godhead
observed that tremendous disturbances were taking place in the holy city of
Dvaraka. Thus the Lord spoke to the assembled senior members of the Yadu
dynasty as follows.

34. The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Our
dynasty has been cursed by the brahmanas. Such a curse is impossible to
counteract, and thus great disturbances are appearing everywhere around us.

35. My dear respected elders, we must not remain
any longer in this place if we wish to keep our lives intact. Let us go this
very day to the most pious place Prabhasa. We have no time to delay.

36. Once, the moon was afflicted with consumption
because of the curse of Daksa, but just by taking bath at Prabhasa-ksetra, the
moon was immediately freed from his sinful reaction and again resumed the
waxing of his phases.

37-38. By bathing at Prabhasa-ksetra, by offering sacrifice
there to placate the forefathers and demigods, by feeding the worshipable
brahmanas with various delicious foodstuffs and by bestowing opulent gifts upon
them as the most suitable candidates for charity, we will certainly cross over
these terrible dangers through such acts of charity, just as one can cross over
a great ocean in a suitable boat.

39. Sukadeva Gosvami said: O favorite son of the
Kurus, thus advised by the Personality of Godhead, the Yadavas made up their
minds to go to that holy place, Prabhasa-ksetra, and thus yoked their horses to
their chariots.